ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 200, 13 May 1918, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

KILLED AT A CROSSING. By Teleitrap!».-P'-e« Association. Invercargill, May 11. This morning a train collided with a trap driven by Homy Hodgkubon, a farmer, seventy years of age, at Makarera Hodgkinson, who was severely injured, expired a few .minutes afterwards. Eric Spiller.'aged 12 years, ■ who lives in Waripori Streef, was rimng a bicycle in Manners Street on Saturday altermod when it skidded m front or a tramcar. The boy was thrown to (he ground. He was admitted to the hospital, where it was lonntl no was suiiVriii" from a slight concussion. A pedestrian in Cuba Street on Saturday afternoon, William Gohl, ot 9i Acu> lafdo Road, slipped on a banana skin and injured his nsht tliigh. He \va= taken to tho hospital. ~,,.,,, A boilernmker named Frederick Bandell, employed on an overseas steamer, met with a painful accident shortly after 8 o'clock on Saturday mgfct. tie was en°a"ed in blowing down one ot t;ie boilers, and in the course of the work was severely scalded about tho back and arms and hands. No one actually witnessed the mishap liandell being found lying on tho plater in tho stokehold by J nines Borley, a trimmer. Dr. Young was summoned, and after attending to the injured man, ordered his removal to the hospital.